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Parents of lost babies and potential of all kinds: come here to share the technicolour, the vividness, the despair, the heart-broken-open, the compassion we learn for others, having been through this mess — and see it reflected back at you, acknowledged and understood.

Thanks to photographer Xin Li and to artist Stephanie Sicore for their respective illustrations and photos.

ttc | pregnancy | birth after loss > TTC after stillbirth, just getting ready

Our first baby, Charlotte, was stillborn June 6th. I'm pretty sure we decided to try again just a few weeks later. We are both ok with ttc now. I'm just waiting on the doctor to give us the ok. She wanted me to wait until after 3 cycles since I was 26 weeks along.

I also have to wait for blood work. I'm O- and my husband is O+. The only reason they could possibly find for Charlotte being stillborn was Rh incompatibility. I had a lot of fetal blood in my system. I have been given Rhogam twice now. So we're just waiting to see if that did its job. I really want to start trying this month. I long to be pregnant again. I don't want to replace Charlotte, I just want to enjoy an entire pregnancy, a live baby being born and parent a living child. I never knew how much I truly wanted a baby until I lost my daughter.

I know I shouldn't get my hopes up about this month. I know it could take months for it to happen again. I was on Depo for years and went off Sept '09. We got pregnant in Dec and that was pretty amazing in itself. So I know I have to prepare myself for this to be a longer journey than I really want it to be.
September 10, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSusan
Lots of love and luck and I'm so sorry you are without your little girl.

I lost my son, Freddie, in April but I am fortunate to have living children as well, although not any other sons. Freddie didn't breathe at birth but did live for 11 days in SCBU before succumbing to a chest infection.

We are also ttc-ing - it seems that bodies can take a while to recover, but I hope you are successful quickly :)
September 10, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterMerry
Good luck Susan, and I hope ttc goes much more smoothly than you anticipate. I'm so sorry again about your sweet Charlotte, and I just love her name.
September 10, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterKeely